How I Built My GitHub Profile
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I ran a discussion on dev that collected quite a list of examples in the comment section. So many great calls to action, animations, memes, and weird tricks.

Date: July 10, 2020

I ran a discussion on dev that collected quite a list of examples in the comment section. So many great calls to action, animations, memes, and weird tricks.

[![dev.to whats-on-your-github-profile](https://images.waylonwalker.com/whats-on-your-github-profile.png)](https://dev.to/waylonwalker/what-s-on-your-github-profile-40p3)

## My current profile

[![Waylon Walkers GitHub profile](https://images.waylonwalker.com/github-profile.png)](https://github.com/waylonwalker/)

## social icons

Upload all of your icons to the repo in a directory such as `icons` or `assets`, then link them with a `height` attribute like below. I used html for mine, not sure if you can set the `height` in markdown.

``` markdown
 [1]  
```

**note** I did add a bit of ` ` (non-breaking-whitespace) between my icons. Without adding css this seemed like the simplest way to do it.

## Center

Aligning things in the center of the readme is super simple. I used this trick to align my social icons in the middle.

``` markdown

 ...html

```

## right

For my [latest post](https://waylonwalker.com/latest) I floated it to the right with a little bit of `align='right'` action.

``` markdown

 [2]

```

You may need to play with where you put this in the document, and the size of elements to get things to flow right.

## redirects

In order to keep my latest post always up to date on my readme I implemented a netlify redirect to always point to my latest post. As a digital gardener this helps me keep pointed to a the best one in my opinion. Any automated way would pick up half finished posts.

```
# /static/_redirects
# netlify redirects

# latest post
/latest /blog/kedro-catalog-search/
/latest.png /kedro-catalog-search.png
```

Now I can reference both the post and the post cover image.

## summary/details

I also wanted to list out a few of my favorite posts without taking up a ton of space, so I used `details` and `summary` tags so that it would collapse.

``` markdown

 other favorite posts
 [3]
 [4]
 [5]

```

Go ham on your profile, its your own slice of GitHub to completely personalize and speak your brand. Give a powerfule call to action, share a funny meme, record a wicked cool GIF, its your space.

References:
[1]: https://dev.to/waylonwalker
[2]: https://images.waylonwalker.com/latest
[3]: https://images.waylonwalker.com/eight-years-cat/
[4]: https://images.waylonwalker.com/keyboard-driven-vscode/
[5]: https://images.waylonwalker.com/what-are-github-actions/